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AOL Takes AIM At Online Meetings

On Thursday, AOL's 36 million active IM users will get access to the new AIM Business Services, which marries voice conferencing from Lightbridge and Web meetings technology from WebEx in a single interface to power online meetings. Add comment

Microsoft Showcases New Projects

Microsoft brought its brainiacs to Silicon Valley for a road show highlighting the latest cool stuff. Scientists from Microsoft Research labs in San Francisco and Redmond joined their colleagues at the company's Mountain View, Calif. campus to showcase speculative projects that could someday find their way into products. Add comment

More Free Linux Desktop Offerings

Linux desktop vendors Xandros and Linspire (also known as Lindows) are offering more desktop software for less, and, in the case of Xandros, for nothing. Add comment

Seagate Announces 5GB CF II Hard Drive

Seagate Has Announced that it will be producing a 5GB hard drive in the CF Type II form factor – essentially a microdrive. Add comment

Microsoft Korea Has Offices Raided

South Korean regulators raided Microsoft Corp.'s local offices on Thursday, following allegations that the US company violated trade regulations by slapping MSN messenger onto it's Windows operating system. Add comment

UK Sits Out Europe’s Fight Against Music Pirates

Several European countries are advancing the trend toward suing music file-sharers, but the UK's music association, the British Phonographic Industry, is not falling in line, in spite of new research data indicating that aggressive legal tactics do curb illegal downloading. Add comment

BT acts against child porn sites

The BBC reports that BT (British Telecom) customers will soon be prevented from accessing websites containing images of child sexual abuse. Add comment

Battlefield Vietnam v1.02 Patch

Electronic Arts have released a new patch for Battlefield Vietnam. This should replace the last update v1.01 and only has two fixes to it: Crash to desktop and disconnect issues have been corrected. Add comment

NEW ATI Catalyst 4.6 Released

ATI has released a new set of drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards. Add comment

Internet Explorer Carved Up By Another Zero-Day Hole

Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer which allow a complete bypass of security and provide system access to a computer, including the installation of files on someone's hard disk without their knowledge, through a single click. Add comment

IT Morale Drops To All-Time Low, Study Says

Morale among IT workers has dipped to an all-time low, even though demand for certain skills is rising, according to a new study from Meta Group. Add comment

EarthLink Launches High-Speed Broadband Service

EarthLink on Wednesday announced a new broadband service that promises faster download speeds. Add comment

Domain Name Registrations Hit All-Time High

More than 4.7 million new domain names were registered during the first quarter of 2004--the most ever recorded in a three-month period, according to a report released by Mountain View, California-based VeriSign, which operates the global registry for Web addresses ending in .com and .net. Add comment

Seagate Shows Several New Hard Drives

Seagate Technology has unveiled a line-up of new hard drives that it expects to launch in the second half of this year, including its first 1-inch drive for portable consumer electronics devices. Add comment

Nintendo Develops New Home Game Console

Nintendo Co., which dominates the portable video-game machine market, said Wednesday it is developing a new home game console code-named "Revolution" in an apparent attempt to catch up with rival Sony Corp. (SNE), which makes the PlayStation 2 console. Add comment

Liquid Cooled 2.5ghz Powermac G5

According to [url=http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5229347.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed]ZDnet[/url], The new top of the line 2.5ghz PowerMac G5 will be Liquid Cooled. Add comment

Linksys Router Exploit Fix

The Linksys Router Remote Sniffing Exploit vulnerability that [url=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16416]The Inq[/url] reported on has been fixed. Add comment

Apple announces new G5s

Neowin reports that Apple have announced an upgrade to their popular Power Mac G5 line of computers; being promoted as the worlds 'coolest computer' (in both senses of the word) the update comes with a bunch of new features. Add comment

Red Hat Linux upgrade bug hides Windows

Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it. Add comment

Windows XP SP2 Build 2142 Download

FlexBeta have put up Windows XP SP2 build 2142 for download. Last time I checked it was only the Express install download that was available. Add comment

NEW MSN Messenger 6.2.0137

MSN Messenger 6.2 has been updated to build 0137. No apparent changes have been found yet, however some people have been reporting more reliable video conferencing over that of the previous build. Add comment